{"id":1615,"date":"2012-09-28T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2012-09-28T11:06:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:06:27","slug":"leave-it-to-claire-by-tracey-bateman-from-the-blog-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/leave-it-to-claire-by-tracey-bateman-from-the-blog-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave It To Claire By Tracey Bateman – From The Blog Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

***Note, this is a repeat of an old blog post! Enjoy! I recall this novel being both funny and endearing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leave It To Claire by Tracey Bateman<\/a><\/p>\n

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Could you be friends with your unfaithful ex-husband’s new wife?<\/strong> The main character in Leave It To Claire struggles with this predicament.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed this book. The author has the perfect voice for chicklit(or momlit, not sure about the correct way to categorize this story). The story is about Claire Everett, a fairly successful romance author and the struggles she has to go through to raise her four kids as a single mother. Claire struggles to forgive her ex-husband, Rick, for his infidelity. He had an affair, and since their divorce, he\u2019s gotten remarried. Claire finds it hard to have a relationship with Rick\u2019s fairly new wife since Claire has a hard time separating the fact that Darcy is NOT the woman who Rick had an affair with. Subconsciously, and wrongly, she blames Darcy for her marital breakup.<\/p>\n

As Claire deals with her issues, she suffers through two carpal tunnel syndrome surgeries, and struggles to accept Darcy\u2019s kind offer to help. As a result of her son\u2019s behavioral problems, she must attend family therapy with her husband and Darcy in order to discover the root to her son\u2019s problems. She also makes a list of things to do to improve her life. She promises herself to strengthen her faith in God, as well as improve her relationship with her family. She decides to have family study time and weekly social events with her kids, hoping to bond with them.<\/p>\n

Claire also finds herself attracted to Greg, her son\u2019s handsome teacher. When her mother moves to another state, she is saddened. However, when Greg buys her mother\u2019s home(down the street from her house) and moves in with his young daughter, Claire discovers he is a widower. She fantasizes about having a relationship with her son\u2019s teacher, and he\u2019s there for her when she goes through her anxiety attacks.<\/p>\n

In the end, a rude awakening takes place when Darcy forces Claire to admit to her role in her husband\u2019s infidelity. Darcy makes Claire come to terms with her mistakes, and to admit to the mistakes she\u2019s made in her marriage to Rick.<\/p>\n

This book was excellent. Although the family would be considered dysfunctional, the author uses her humorous voice to show how Claire deals with her problems. Tracey Bateman also shows us how, if we find our faith wavering, we need to make solid decisions about making our faith stronger in God.<\/p>\n

So, could you be friends with your unfaithful ex-husband’s new wife?<\/strong> Leave a comment!<\/p>\n

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~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

***Note, this is a repeat of an old blog post! Enjoy! I recall this novel being both funny and endearing. Leave It To Claire by Tracey Bateman Could you be friends with your unfaithful ex-husband’s new wife? The main character in Leave It To Claire struggles with this predicament. I really enjoyed this book. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faithwords","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}